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Five Tips For Increasing Your Vertical Jump
Having a good vertical jump is pretty important in most sports (Captain Obvious, I know). As such, it’s a pretty important goal for most of the athletes I work with. Most equipment manufacturers know this and try to sell various products like jump shoes and various band contraptions to improve this. In this post, I’m going to outline five strategies for improving vertical jump that don’t need any of these.
1. Move Better
Movement quality is the first thing we look at when an athlete walks in the door. Can the athlete squat without their knees falling into valgus collapse? Do their heels lift? Do they have poor shoulder/t-spine mobility? If the athlete has tight hip flexors, they aren’t going to be able to access their posterior chain as well. If the athletes knees are falling in, their heals lift, and they have poor mobility, they aren’t going to have the best jumping ability. Vertical jump – and jumping in general – is all about force production relative to your bodyweight. If the athlete has the poor movement skills mentioned above, they won’t be able to apply as much force to the ground. This means a lower vertical jump.
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Tagged Avon, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Nunn's Performance Training, Olympic Lifting, Personal Training, snatch, Speed, Veritcal Jump
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4/16/2012 Strongman Events and Bench
4/15
Axle
worked up to 300 for a few reps. Was struggling with technique for whatever reason.
Yoke
Worked up to 810 then did several runs at 630, 540, and 450 for speed.
Stones
Took it easy as my back is still a little gimpy. Did 275 for some reps.
4/16
I felt really sore from yesterday’s events, so I just worked up to 405 x 1 on bench and called it a day.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Bench Press, Nunn's Performance Training, Personal Training, Speed, Strength, Strongman
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4/13/2012 Snatch, Speed Hang Cleans, and Squats
Snatch
150 x 3
175 x 3
199 x 3
Speed Hang Cleans 199 x 5 x 2 – 30 seconds rest between.
Squat
385 x 3
445 x 3
495 x 7 – Pretty happy with this.
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4/12/2012 Press and Conditioning
Press/Facepulls x 10
205 x 3
235 x 3
260 x 4
Band Pushups x 10/ 1/2 kneeling band lat pulldowns x 10/ bicep curls x 10 (don’t laugh)
10 Hill sprints – 8:58
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Tagged Avon, Axle press, Conditioning, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Nunn's Performance Training, Speed, Strength
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My Favorite Training Songs
Had some down time in the gym today, so I thought I’d lay out my ten favorite songs to listen to while I train. These are in no particular order:
Chimera – Destroy and Dominate
Eminem – ‘Till I Collapse
Down – Bury Me In Smoke
Hatebreed – No Halos For The Heartless
Hatebreed – I Will Be Heard
Terror – Overcome
Eminem – Lose Yourself
Santana – Second Coming
Throwdown – Holy Roller
Black Label Society – Bleed For Me
This is some of my favorite music to train with. Right now anyways. What are yours?
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Tagged Avon, Black Label Society, Eminem, Hatebreed, Motivation, Music, Speed, Strength, Terror
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Should Athletes Olympic Lift?
“Speed deadlifts are the lazy, uncoordinated answer to power cleans.”
-Jim Wendler
The olympic lifts are the snatch and the clean and jerk. They have many variations that include but aren’t limited to the hang snatch, hang clean, power snatch, power clean, dumbbell cleans, dumbbell snatches, and many more. They are all very explosive yet technically challenging total body lifts that are designed to increase the athletes power production. More specifically, to increase power production in triple extension (ankle, knee, and hip extension).
Triple Extension
The big debate in the sports performance world is whether they should be used to train athletes. The opponents of olympic lifts say that the lifts are too hard to teach, to technically demanding, and to risky for injury.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Bench Press, Conditioning, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Jim Wendler, Joe Defranco, Nunn's Performance Training, Olympic Lifting, Personal Training, Speed, Strength
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4/6/2012 Snatch, Speed Hang Cleans, and Light Squats
Foam Roll
Warm Up
PRI Drills
Snatch
135 x 5
160 x 5
185 x 5
Speed Hang Cleans
185 x 6 x 2 – 30sec rest. Catching them as high as possible.
Squat
365 x 5
425 x 5
470 x 5 – very easy. I’ve been having some pain in my SI joint. It’s starting to subside now, so I’m easing back into squats.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Motivation, Nunn's Performance Training, Olympic Lifting, Personal Training, Power Clean, snatch, Squat, Strength
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Mental Preparation: Keeping Your Head In The Game
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
- Bobby Knight
It’s that nervous feeling in your stomach before a game.
It’s the flutter of your heart before a meet.
It’s that fear that’s trying to overcome you as you lace up your cleats.
What I’m talking about is your body’s response to the stress of competition. It’s described in most physiology books as the sympathetic nervous system response (or fight or flight). Our bodies developed this response very early in our development as humans. Basically, when confronted with a saber toothed tiger, we had two options: stand and fight (fight) or run away (flight). Either way, that caveman will need to flip his lid and do something to survive. His body is making sure he has the proper physiological environment to do so. Like I’ve said before, Psychology always trumps Physiology.
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3/18 Strongman Events and 3/19 Bench Press
3/18 Events
Axle C & P
Worked up to 300 x 6
Log
Worked Up to 350 x 1 – tried 2 but missed the reclean.
Farmers Walk
315 x 50ft
350 x 30ft
Yoke
810 x 50ft
3/19 Bench
Worked up to 380 x 5
Five Things You’re Doing (or not doing) That Are Keeping You From Getting Results
I’d say probably 99.9% of people aren’t really happy with the way they look or perform. So what’s the answer? They go join the gym and/or start diet “x”. So yes, It’s great that they see something wrong and are trying to do something about it. But, if they start and don’t see any results, they’ll leave discouraged and not come back. We don’t want that. So, here are a few of the things that are keeping you from getting the results that you want.
Not changing their diet.
I hear it all the time. “I eat healthy. Why can’t I lose weight?” This is usually when I ask them what their version of healthy is. At this point, I usually find out that their diet resembles dog poo. The old saying is that you can’t out train a bad diet, and that is absolutely true. If weight-loss is your goal, diet has to be the number one priority.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Conditioning, doing it wrong, Fitness Sucks, Indiana, Indianapolis, Long Slow Distance, Nunn's Performance Training, nutrition, Speed, Strength, Tabata, Weight Loss
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